课文学习

（18分钟） 1. Look at the first picture, know the basic information of the dialogue and learn to say the sentences "These postcards are great!" and "Yes, they are." After that, I'll show some postcards and tell the children the assessment rules of this lesson.

T: Look! Daming is in New York with his cousin Simon. What are they looking at? Can you guess? (To show the picture with PPT.)

Ss: They are looking at some postcards.

T: Yeah, These postcards are great! Yes?

Ss: Yes, they are.

(To get the children to learn to say between boys and girls with PPT.)

After that, I'll show some postcards and tell the children the assessment rules of this lesson.

2. Watch the video with a question and know the whole situation.

The question is: What are they talking about?

T: They are looking at some postcards. But what are they talking about? Please watch the video and choose the right answer.

3. Read the dialogue by themselves and find out the answers to the three questions. Then talk about the answers in groups.

T: Do you want to know more about the Great Wall, Beijing and New York?

Ss: Yes!

T: OK! This time, please read the dialogue and find out the answers to the questions.

The three questions on PPT:

How long is the Great Wall?

How big is New York?

How big is Beijing?

After reading the questions, I'll get them to read the dialogue by themselves, then talk about the answers in teams.

4. Say the answers and learn to say and use the new words and sentences with the help of PPT.

The new words to learn: thousand, more than, kilometre, million.

The new sentences to learn: How long is it? It's more than twenty thousand kilometres long. How big is it? It has got more than eight million people.

Learn to say the new words: "thousand", "more than" and "million" with PPT, learn to say the new word "kilometre" with the sentence "It's more than twenty thousand kilometres long."

At the same time, write down the sentences on the blackboard.

The sentences to write down:

A: How long is it?

B: It's more than twenty thousand kilometres long.

After learning each main sentence, learn to use them with PPT.

The sentences to learn to use:

Tell me more about the... How long / How high is it?

Can you tell me something about...? How big is it? (运用之前强调has got用于表达城市人口数量的用法。)

5. Sum up the function and the grammar of the sentences.

6. Listen and say. Then practise reading by themselves.